Apple Cider Pancakes

Apple Cider Pancakes have been on my mind for a few years. When we lived in Michigan, fall means going to apple cider mills. They have all the things that pumpkin patches have, except some don’t have pumpkins. They have hay and places for the kids to play and get the clean kind of messy. But most importantly they have apple cider and apple cider donuts. That’s really why everyone goes. For the donuts and the cider.

I’ve already talked about my relationship with donuts, with this recipe for these fall flavored donuts. Pancakes are really more my thing. And my family’s. As a matter of fact, when we lived in Michigan, pancakes were a staple at our house. My husband was very busy with his residency and I had baby number 4 just a few months after moving there. And for some reason, pancakes is what happened to work for those days that I couldn’t do anything else. Breakfast for dinner was a common occurrence. It had a lot to do with that I could cook up a whole bunch at one time and then re-heat really easily later. And my kids would eat them. So, win.

These pancakes in particular came because also in Michigan you can find good, fresh apple cider everywhere in the fall. I wanted to do something fun with it, and this just seemed to make sense to me. The pancakes themselves aren’t super strong with the cider flavor, but when you pair with the cinnamon syrup, it’s fall deliciousness.